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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='color:#1F497D'>Google “asterisk click to call”.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It sounds like you want to automate the dialing in some sort of phonebook app; this is the easier solution. You will have to decide whether you want a client-centric solution or a server-centric solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I suggest you review </span><a href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+click+to+call">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+click+to+call</a><span style='color:#1F497D'> for ideas of what’s out there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I designed the click-to-call system in Ultimate Events Calendar (channel 88 on MTS Ultimate TV), although I don’t know if that feature ever went live… it spoke HTTP from your STB to a proxy server which spoke AMI to the Asterisk server which established both legs of a bridge between the phone# the TV user entered and a ring group (IIRC) with some funky dialplan logic to tie it all together. That’s fairly typical of the server-centric model; complexity is the order of the day when tying that many disparate systems together. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Client-centric (e.g. TAPI, FF extensions, etc.) is simpler but much more limited.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>-Adam Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> athompso@athompso.net<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> asterisk-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:asterisk-bounces@muug.mb.ca] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Akash Deep Singh<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> asterisk@muug.mb.ca<br><b>Subject:</b> [*] Interesting question<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>How can we use asterisk to make a call from php based website. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For e.g. I have an asterisk based system and website or a php page showing list of people with their numbers. So what I want to do is click the number and call goes through my asterisk system. I could answer it using my deskphone or softphone. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Can we use TAPI or some sort of script in php to pass the number to asterisk. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>